Nick and Valerie keep a list of all the people and things they hate to help them deal with all the abuse that they receive. It’s just a list, until the day Nick begins shooting and killing those on the list and then himself leaving Valerie to deal with the reality of it.

“Valerie Leftman, 16, was the last victim shot before Nick Levil, the alleged shooter, reportedly turned the gun on himself.”

Nick was Valerie’s boyfriend. Nick and Valerie were both picked on and bullied at school – a lot. One way they found to deal with all of the abuse, was to make a Hate List. In this notebook were the names of people and things that they hated. But it was just a list, right? Until one day Nick came to school and began shooting, targeting those named in the Hate List.

Nick is gone but Valerie is left. Left to deal with her family and friends who don’t know if she was part of Nick’s plan or not. She’s left loving and missing someone who is now considered a monster. How could she still love Nick? She’s left wondering how she missed all the signs. She’s left finishing her senior year at the school where it all happened.

Read to see how Valerie deals with the internal and external turmoil after the tragedy at Garvin High School on May 2, 2008, a day she will never be able to forget. Will she be able to move on?

Chris Peeler

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I am the Media Specialist at Heather Ridge School in Frederick, Maryland and I love it! I graduated from Drexel University with a Masters in Library and Information Science. This blog was one of my assignments. The class is over now but the reading continues. Now I'm reading as many books as possible to share with my middle and high school students. I hope you enjoy reading about these books as much as I enjoyed reading them. Enjoy!